Timber Construction Guide

Those who decide to build with wood and/or wood-based materials actively contribute to protecting the environment! Wood is the only renewable natural resource on our planet – every five seconds, in fact, enough fresh wood grows in Germany alone to build a new single-family home. Wood is also a natural carbon sink, and it’s a proven fact that it takes less energy to produce engineered wood products than most other construction materials, while emitting far less CO₂ into the bargain.

Even the tiniest leftover bits, as well as all production scrap, are reused – ultimately by incinerating them to release the energy they contain, but in a sensible product lifecycle not until after materials have been reused multiple times. Wood and wood-based products thus meet today’s wishes for sustainability and extensive recycling, and therefore richly deserve their reputation as environmentally valuable, forward-looking, green building materials.

Natural wood owes its structure to a combination of insulating cavities and moisture-regulating cell walls, making it ideal for virtually all uses. Despite being relatively lightweight, wood and wood-based materials are extremely strong. Moreover, as they are naturally thermally insulating, they are perfect materials for building alternative, highly energy-efficient structures.

The natural properties of wood and wood-based materials also result in a constant, health-promoting indoor climate.